Horseshoe



UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY A. RHONEMUS AND CONRAD LOHNES, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,795, dated November 26, 1889.

Application filed April 4, 1889. Serial No. 305,981. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HARRY A. RHONEMUS and CONRAD LOHNES, citizens of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the following is a speei fication.

Our invention relates to horseshoes, and

*0 has reference more particularly to that class of devices which are adapted to be applied to the hoof of the animal without the use of nails.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is IS a perspective view of our-improved shoe; Fig 2, a bottom plan view, and Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line 2 2.

The shoe comprises a sole A, and upper B, which will preferably be made of a single piece of metal, the sole portion A being at an angle to the upper B.

The sole-plateA is provided with slots a in its arms, and is cut away at its center, as at b, but the upper plate B is not cut away at all, the purpose of the slots being to permit the sole-plate A to bend in the plane of its length. Of course when the sole is thus bent the upper will also be bent,but at right angles to the length of its arms, thereby rendering slotting unnecessary. Secured to the ends ofthe sole-plate are lugs c and (1, one of which dis threaded to receive the threaded end of a bolt 0, as shown in Fig. 2, the opposite end of the rod, which passes freely 3 5 through the lug 0, being headed, as at 6, Figs. 1 and 2. Between the lugs c d the rod or stem is provided with an enlargement f, adapted to receive a wrench, by means of which the rod or stem may be turned, and it will be seen that when said rod or stem is turned to screw into the lug d the free ends of the sole-plate will be drawn toward each other, the slots a b permitting the bending of i the sole. When it is desired to apply the shoe, the bolt or stem 0 is turned in such manner as to spread the arms of the sole-plate apart, so as to permit the inclined upper B to be applied to the hoof. The upper is made inclined, to correspond with the inclination of the hoof, and it will be readily seen that when the upper is drawn against the face of the hoof it will be impossible for the shoe to become accidentally detached.

The shoe herein described and shown is particularly useful where the hoof is cracked or broken and Where it is impossible or undesirable to use nails.

No broad claim is made herein to a shoe adapted to be clamped to the hoof, as these are old and well known; but

What is claimed is- In a horseshoe, the combination, with the continuous metallic sole-plate A, of a continuous metallic upper secured thereto, the sole and upperbeing elastic, lugs c and d, secured to the under side of the sole-plate at its ends, a lug secured to the under side of the soleplate at its front, and a threaded stem 0, screwing into lug d and passing freely through lug c, the said stem being provided with a head 6 and an enlargement f, all substantially as shown, whereby the shoe may be se-.

cured to the hoof without the use of nails.

In witness whereof we hereunto set our hands in the presence of two witnesses.

HARRY A. RI-IONEMUS.

' CONRAD LOHNES.

\Vitnesses:

J. J. MILLER, SAM BAHER. 

